I wish that we had changing leaves here. There is this one little area with cottonwoods by the wash that have these beautiful golden leaves that I love to drive by; it is the only changing leaves I have.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Leaves, Wednesday, December 24, 2008
I wish that we had changing leaves here. There is this one little area with cottonwoods by the wash that have these beautiful golden leaves that I love to drive by; it is the only changing leaves I have.
Childhood Idol, Monday, December 22, 2008
My house mate got this book called Visual Chronicles and I did some journaling with this idea in mind. Snow White was my favorite when I was a child and this is a little tribute to her.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Bird, Thursday, December 18, 2008
Bird done at the zoo. This bird nearly came up and touched me. Watercolor
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Flowers, Tuesday, December 16, 2008
I stayed in a hotel in Phoenix several months ago and these were the flowers from all the trees around the hotel.
Elephant Pen, Sunday, December 14, 2008
I while back I was trying to do everything in Pen to improve my drawing. Here is another Elephant drawing from the Zoo.
Backyard, Friday, December 12, 2008
Backyard, this was from an idea from Art Escape of painting before you draw. I painted all the colors I saw and then drew some of the random things that I saw. It was fun.
Elephant Pencil, Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Elephant in Pencil drawn a few months ago from the zoo.
Prickly Pear in Pencil, Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Prickly Pear in Pencil on paper drawn at the Tohona Chul Park a few months back.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Christmas Tree, Monday, December 8, 2008
Monday, we went as a house to get our Christmas tree. It is so tall it touches the roof. We decorated and ate popcorn. I could not partake in the Eggnog this year, but it was a grand time. Watercolor sketch in journal 5.5 X 8.5
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Earth Triad, Saturday, December 6, 2008
Earth Triad - My favorite. I love the greens and browns these three colors make.
Sun Triad, Friday, December 5, 2008
Sun Triad - I can think of a lot of fun things to do with this triad it is very bright and powerful.
Water Triad, Thursday, December 4, 2008
This is the Water Triad, these are really pale colors and it was very hard to get darks. I think it is because the purple in this is so low intensity.
Full Triad, Wednesday, December 3, 2008
I am trying to learn more about color and the mood of color. In the book, Art Escapes, the author talks about working with triads so the next few days is the triads that she uses in the same picture. It was exciting painting these. My favorite is the the earth triad. This is the Full Spectrum Triad.
Giraffe, Monday, December 1, 2008
Giraffe at the zoo. This Giraffe seemed like it was close enough for me to touch it. It was eating grass on the side of its exhibit at the zoo. I got a phone call in the middle of doing the sketch and had to leave to go work out a work crisis, but I think it is still a fun sketch.
Zebra, Sunday, November 30, 2008
Quick Sketch of the Zebra at the zoo. Animals are so hard sometimes because they just keep moving, but this was fun.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Prairie Dogs, Friday, November 28, 2008
I went to the Desert Museum here in Tucson on Friday to avoid the craziness of the shopping. I thought it would be less busy, but it was very crowded hard to sketch or draw anything, but I got these quick sketches of the very fat Prairie Dogs.
Thanksgiving Flowers, Thursday, November 27, 2008
These were the other Thanksgiving Flowers. This was a quick 2 minute watercolor sketch on watercolor paper.
Playful Daisey, Wednesday, November 26, 2008
I just started an Aquabee sketch journal. This is my first painting in it. The colors are all off because the scan would not work right even after photoshoping it. These were some of the Thanksgiving flowers.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Sunflowers, Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Sunflowers that Sue bought for her daughter Ashton. They are Ashton's favorite flowers. Watercolor 4X6
Marine Blue Splashing, Monday, November 24, 2008
Just a little splashing around with Marine Blue and some fun other colors.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Poinsettia 1, Friday, November 21, 2008
Poinsettia painting. This was a quick little watercolor sketch to just get the idea of what I wanted to do with the Poinsettias. Watercolor 4X6
Sunset Trees 2, Thursday, November 20, 2008
This is the more expressive Tree painting where I painted the branches instead of drawing them first.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Hospital, Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The Hospital view in between praying and talking to the child I was sitting with this night.
Guy at Hospital, Tuesday, November, 18, 2008
On Wednesday, I was home sick from work, but ended up working in the evening to watch a suicidal child in the emergency room that we did not have a psych bed for. We were in the hallway of the hospital ER and this was a guy next to us. His big ears reminded me of my first boyfriend. Last night a promptly placed my journal in water and my ink smeared all over the place.
Tree Sunset 1, Monday, November 17, 2008
This was my first attempt at the bare trees. I drew all the branches. I like my second attempt where I painted them all instead of drawing them first which I will post later.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Brush War, Saturday, November 15, 2008
Elliot (the three year old I live with) was wanting to jump on my bed today, so he did and we had fun. Then he wanted to paint. He likes to paint at my desk in my little room. It is only really big enough to have him paint on it, but he always wants me to paint too. I have this cheep Chinese Brush set that I use with him and today he wanted to play swords with the paint brushes. He made two pretty much brown paintings before this one that we made together. He likes to mix all the paints together, but we got some color in this one. So, I tried to do some brush strokes and make some shapes and he attacked my brush with his brush and scribbled over what I was doing. Then it was just all out war of the brushes on the paper. 8.5X11 watercolor
Poppy Flower, Friday, November 14, 2008
Poppy Flower painted several years ago at the Santa Rita Abbey. It was the first painting I every did without drawing anything first.
Tubac Plant, Thursday, November 13, 2008
This was done from a photo a while back. It is on my door of inspiration because it is so colorful. It was this crazy plant in bloom that I saw in Tubac a few years back.
Pear, Wednesday, November 12, 2008
This was the day of my procedure. Nothing found to the naked eye, but lost of samples of my intestines and stomach taken to pathology to find out what is wrong with me. I slept all day this day. so this painting is from a year ago. It is a panel painting from an example out of the Art Escapes book.
Growing Potatoes, Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Tuesday was the day of the clear liquid diet and prep for the scope down and up my entire digestive system. The prep (laxative) was horrible (ginger, lemon, salt water), but I got through the day. This is a pen and wash of over grown potatoes from the drawing class about 6 months ago. This was a fast 2-3minute sketch.
Sea Shells, Monday, November 10, 2008
These are sea shells that one of my art teachers let me take home and draw. They were very fun, but the worm-like shell was a bit of a challenge. This week was a little hard health wise, so all of these are delay. I did this about 6 months ago. Pencil on paper.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Gold and Purple Pouring, Saturday, November 8, 2008
A while back I was doing a lot of watercolor pouring pictures and teaching people how to do them. I decided to isolate some of the ones I liked and and use them for my journal and card pictures. Watercolor 4X6
Snowbowl, Friday, November 7, 2008
Snowbowl in Flagstaff from the sky lift. The aspens were changing colors which was a great contrast against the evergreens. Watercolor 4X6.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
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